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It's All about the Journey; Handbound books, Rubber Stamping, Paper Crafting and Tutorials. Where will your crafting journey take you?Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:46:42 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Ingehttps://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/new-knitting-project-slippers/#comment-17783
Thu, 01 May 2014 14:45:12 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-17783Hi Billie, Thank you for your great advice, I will write out the instructions as you suggest. I’ll also check out the Knitting Book and Judy’s Youtube if I get into more trouble. Thanks for being so patient and helpful, All the best — Inge.
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Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:45:37 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-17774Hi Inge

I wrote you a long reply earlier but it got lost so lets try again.
Have a look at the Yarn-Reviews section, The Knitting book is superb for when you read a term in a pattern you don’t understand, its like a visual dictionary for step by step how toos. Bear in mind that if you are in the UK and used to reading UK patterns that if you buy from Etsy or often on Ravelry that the USA has different names for some stitch patterns, needle sizes and so on, The Dummies Guide to knitting has an American author and is good for deciphering the US terms. If you can only get one go with The Knitting book.

Commercial patterns often have a guide to the abbreviation’s they will use, but not all patterns of Ravelry do, you can usually post or email the seller for clarification though. Shout if you get stuck on the pattern but I cannot re post the pattern longhand on here as the copyright for it is with the author. Some options that might help.

Re print the pattern so you have a copy you can scribble on, then identify the terms you know as in K for Knit and M (?) for make (however many) and use highlighter pens, use the same colour through out so you can quickly spot them. Next write out each line of the pattern replacing the K with the word Knit and so on, I do this in a little book, so I can keep them together. Do it in pencil first just in case you misunderstand a term and need to change it. Lined paper also helps. Patterns are written in abbreviation’s to keep the page numbers low, other wise clothing patterns would be paperback sized, but its like a whole new language when you start out isn’t it. I’m still learning too.

When you search for a pattern on Ravelry use the beginner option from the menu as the easy/beginner patterns are more likely to be either short and simple or some are already written out in long hand, it sometimes says on the pattern description.

With the slippers you are starting at the sole and working very long rows to start with which will later sew together to form the sole. Part way through you put in stitch markers and knit too and fro without knitting right to the end of a row, which seems odd but its forming the part that covers the top of your foot, there is a picture on the pattern of the slippers with them still on the needles which shows this.

Judy’s You Tube channel is great and I use it a lot as I’m a visual learner too, some people find charted patterns easier as they are printed on squared paper and each stitch has its own symbol, it can be easier to visualise how the pattern is coming together but confusing as you are reading left to right THEN right to left so it can get you in a muddle. I find it difficult to read line to line with the dyslexia so I find them hard but if you have a pattern that has both options having them side by side can help.

Pheonix Knitting forum is a very friendly place and they have helped me loads when I get stuck, I think I’ve put a link to them in forums at the right side panel on the blog shout if I haven’t and I will do.

Good luck with your project, and its worth practicing sewing up seams on a separate scrap of knitting so you get a flatter finish so you aren’t walking on a hard line when you sew up your slippers.

Best wishes
Billie

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Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:03:13 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-17770Hi, Thanks so much for your reply. I think I need one of your ‘dyslexic’ fully-written out patterns with photos to help with these slippers. I wish you could post them. I always find instructions a bit confusing and if I cannot visualize what part I’m knitting things are even worse. For example, it doesn;t say whether it’s the sole or the sides or the top that you start with, so I feel completely in the dark and will have to hope that things become clear as I continue to knit.

I will check out Judy’s site. Your own site is fantastic too and I will explore it with pleasure. Thank you once again for your help, Inge.

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Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:59:21 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-17769Hi
Hang in there, they aren’t as difficult as they sound :) PM means Place marker, and M does indeed mean Make 1. A great place to help you through knitting terms is Knitting tips with Judy on You Tube. Judy films so that you are viewing over her shoulder, which means you get the same view of her project as you would your own project. Check out the Yarn tab at the top of the blog and her tutorials are listed under blogs or Tutorials. Ravelry is also a great site as you can ask questions from the pattern designers and others who have knitted the project which is a great help.

Being dyslexic I get very confused with knitting terms, so I re-write the pattern out long hand ie (K1 gets written as Knit 1) and so on, lots of knitters do this especially at the start and it can really help. I get most muddled when you have patterns which ask you to do numerous things all in the same row. To help find my way through those, I use different coloured pens for each instruction so that it helps me focus on the part I need to.

Good luck with your project, do pop back with a picture when you finish them

Best wishes

Billie :)

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Sun, 27 Apr 2014 23:04:55 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-17760Hi, Love your slippers. I saw the original pattern by Yuko Nakamura, but could not understand the instructions. In the very beginning, Row 1, what does PM stand for?? In fact, what did the P and the M stand for throughout? Does M stand for ‘make 1’? I hope you can help. Inge.
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Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:00:27 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-9427[…] readers will remember the slippers I knitted recently that I’d enjoyed so much. The pattern is on Ravelry by Yuko Nakamura […]
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Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:00:27 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-9428[…] readers will remember the slippers I knitted recently that I’d enjoyed so much. The pattern is on Ravelry by Yuko Nakamura […]
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Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:37:37 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-9031They are a bit slippy on the wooden floors and on tiles in the kitchen. The pattern suggests painting the sole with some kind of latex glue for a more grippy finish. I’ve seen something of the sort from HObby Craft, but didn’t buy it as for clean up it said don’t wash in sink or pour down drain as can harm marine life. So I’d rather keep these for upstairs where there’s carpet, or for in the evenning vegging with my feet up :)
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Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:09:30 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-9029I may need to give these a try – they look so warm!
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Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:24:14 +0000http://billiescraftroom.wordpress.com/?p=11380#comment-9019They look great Billie. Would they be slippery on wood surfaces? They do look cozy though :)
Hugs
Lynn x
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